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The StratCraft Journal · issue 051 · June 2026

Research logs, post-mortems, and engineering deep-dives from the team building the StratCraft engine. And the traders shipping live strategies on it.

Latest dispatches.

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This week's reading list.

Hand-picked from the team. Research, papers, and dispatches from elsewhere on the internet.

MAY 25insights
ML vs LLM as Signal Generators: Eight Dimensions Where the Choice Is Already Made

ML vs LLM as a trading signal generator, broken down across eight dimensions: cost shape, failure mode, reproducibility, interpretability, and the one row where the LLM actually wins.

StratCraft · 8 min
MAY 15insights
I Asked an LLM to Generate 20 Trading Strategies. 14 Were the Same Thing.

After generating 20 LLM trading strategies, 14 reused the same mean-reversion shape. Here is what breaks when AI skips the validation stack.

StratCraft · 8 min

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